Worries
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call that cooling equipment?
Questioner : Air conditioner.
Dadashri : Yes, air conditioner. That is the wonder in
India.
Questioner : Nowadays all the worries are in the
comforts of an air-conditioned environment.
Dadashri : Yes, so they are always together. Air-
conditioning with worries. I do not need any air-conditioning.
These Americans do not worry excessively about their
daughter after she turns a certain age . The Indians worry about
their family for seven generations. This is what I call wholesale
intellect and wholesale worries. All suffering is because of
beliefs. There is this difference in the beliefs of foreigners versus
Indians.
Have you received an extension for your life?
You are going to live another two hundred years in this
world, are you not? Haven’t you taken an extension?
Questioner : How can one get an extension? I don’t
think that anything is under our control.
Dadashri : You are so right. If living were under one’s
control, one would never die. But life is forcefully taken away
from everyone. What is the point in worrying if you cannot get
an extension for a longer life? Instead why not enjoy peacefully
whatever you have been allotted?
Human nature invites worries.
Worries ruin the work. Worrying will reduce the quality
of your work from one hundred percent to seventy percent.
Worries obstruct work. If there were no worries, the result